I don’t use Reddit anymore, but I wanted to search something that I couldn’t find anywhere. This is what I saw. After killing all the other apps, Reddit now is trying to force us to use their own spyware app.
This is why they removed the apps. They want to be driving traffic through the app, and the 3rd party apps prevented that from happening.
I think the worst part is they entirely ignored the most painfully obvious solution of implementing a “reddit plus” or “reddit premium” or “reddit red” and just gated third party app access behind a $9.99/mo subscription. I have a hard time believing most reddit users’ ad views are worth anywhere near that much per month. But instead they decided to burn a significant sum of goodwill on questionable premises and pissed off a significant number of power users.
The feeling I got from all of the communications was that /u/spez was jealous of Apollo and just wanted to kill off Apollo. Which would explain why they took such a scorched earth approach in trying to kill all third party apps
That is basically what they did. There are a decent amount of third party apps around that work. I personally use Narwhal.
The further we get from the whole third party app debacle, the more I think this was just a way to kill the most popular apps. The ones that people said made reddit worth using. The ones that got shouted out in Apple keynotes.
They went from providing value to extracting it.
They made the service more shitty! We need a long word to describe that process.
Excrementize?
moreshittierization
Hmm… is impoopify taken?
enfecification?
Long word? Pooooooooooopification
Shoving their di*ks up some things and down others
Lmao that’s so shameless
And just intellectually dishonest. It makes no sense that it’s OK to view the same content in the app but not on the web.
I know it has nothing to do with protecting the users, but how exactly is the app supposed to make viewing unreviewed content safer?
They make more money that way, ergo safer for investors.
Are they just trying to divert as much traffic as possible through their app?
Yep, if you request the desktop version you don’t get that redirect.
Yep. Reddit has gone full corporate.
Yeah, there is 0 way that reddit reviews even 10% of of the content, probably even 5%, if even that. There’s just no way. This is just a scare tactic to get you into their walled garden, to download their app, sign you up, and become a metric.
Yep, why would the subreddit be safer inside their own app xD
Can apps access your photos?
If you give them permissions. Speaking from Android. Don’t know how iOS works.
iOS is the same way. The user needs to grant access to photos.
So people cant access “unrated” 18+ content they found on Google and then have people get mad that the content was NSFW or restricted.
Its essentially a “We dont know what your going to find here and dont want lawsuits” protection.
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It’d be nice if Google unlisted links that bring you to “install our app or you get nothing” pages
why google?
It’s what all the normies use. If they lose a major source of traffic over it, they might stop doing it.
google search is mostly shit without a private frontend like startpage (shut up bot, i know they’re owned by an advertising company)
That is exacly what they try to achieve, satansmaggotycumfart.
But why?
Do they somehow get more personal data that way?
I thought closing access to the API was for my own protection!
Pro tip: add
old.in the beggining of url. Reddit still has such answers for niche questionsI’m going to guess enabling “desktop mode” in Chrome (idk if other browsers have it) would probably work as well, but would throw off the layout most likely.
You can’t access old.reddit.com with VPN these days. I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit killed it soon.
You can’t access the normal Reddit site behind a VPN either. The only solution is to use a private frontend like Redlib with LibRedirect, to automatically redirect all Reddit links to Redlib.
Old Reddit works for me, but I am logged into an account.
Still works for the NSFW stuff too
Yeah but old works like crap on mobile.
Boost still works with some finagling with mods
Better than not working.
Also he just needs the info
or change reddit to safereddit
Or use LibRedirect to do it automatically
awesome, thanks stranger! i’ve been too lazy to make these in redirector
There are browser plugins that do this for you, as well.
The only browser plugin you need for Reddit is LibRedirect to automatically redirect all Reddit links to a private frontend called Redlib
Just change your view to desktop viewer.
Get you to download their app so they can harvest your user data.
I mean yeah, reddit fucking sucks. That’s why we’re all here. Stop going there.
“Download our app and consume ads on it because… becaaaaauuuuuusssseeeeee, um, let’s say SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN? Maybe terrorism? Just pick a reason you’d believe and get the app, okay?”
Easy fix is to update the url to use “old.reddit.com” rather than the base “www.reddit.com”.
That sends you to a version of the site without a bunch of the crap.
This doesn’t work anymore. I just refresh it and stop somewhere in the middle and it sometimes works.
Old Reddit works for me. Does it just not work in general for you, or does it not work when not logged into an account?
Well, I think the link structure changed. If I add old to the url, the page doesn’t even work, but the homepage does.
Did you get a browser error when trying this? It might be because you left the www in the URL. I had to remove that and replace it with old, and it works. The rest of the link structure is the same on both old and new reddit. I even tried it from a VPN just to be sure it wasn’t seeing my logged in cookies, and in a private browsing window where RES isn’t allowed to run. Worked fine.
Oh ok
Interesting. I’ll have to test it when I get home. I’m always signed in and I use RES so could be some other factors causing it to not be a problem for me.
any idea how reddit keeps banning my alt accounts ? I am suspecting chrome broswser is complicit.
Many ways to detect this, but let’s start with the basics: Are you using the same Ip address?
Well yes.
Take a break from Reddit, uninstall all apps, clear cookies off all your browsers for reddit.com, wait a few weeks for your IP address to change, then make a new account.
All I’m gonna say is I’ve been using my banned account and I can still browse any sub.
I literally can’t interact in any way but can still see every post.
trying to appeal to venture capitalists and investors by hiding the sketchy porn sites would be my guess, considering they got busted by cnn for underage stuff.
You can view this content in desktop mode, it’s only on mobile outside the app that you can’t view it
On android, I would recommend using Stealth or Geddit to browse reddit. Stealth has a mode where it scrapes old.reddit.com (and bypasses the API), and Geddit uses the RSS feed to pull content instead of API.
Downside is neither app will let you interact, but I don’t have any desire to generate content for reddit anyways.
Those apps’ days are numbered I’m sure
They’ve been working since the API price change, so nearly a year now.
RedReader also still works due to their disability stuff.
It will get rid of that
is there any firefox extensions/userscripts to make it more tolerable on mobile? the buttons are always way too small.
There’s a beta of RES for mobile now, but I haven’t tried it yet. I mostly use lemmy instead on mobile (but it’s not really the same thing).
I use “Desktop site” mode and just zoom in lol
Yes, actually. Look up Oldlander addon for Firefox.
It’s new and kinda of rough but it definitely helps.
Unfortunately they block old reddit for VPN users now
Gotta shuffle VPN servers until you find one that works.
I haven’t found one that works for a little bit
Private Internet Access works for me. Just tested logged out in an incognito mode tab.
I pay for Proton and the non-free servers generally work, although some have been blocked.
Eventually I’ll treat Reddit like Pinterest, either blocking it entirely from search results, or using FF add-ons to bypass all the cruft laid over the website
That’s not true, at least not for all vpns
I think they’re doing it for logged out users. If you’re logged into an account, you’re fine.
It’s random actually and (I guess) it depends on your IP du jour.
Rdx.overdevs.com is another mobile frontend that works well
I am not going to like the day they remove that.
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I have, I just use it to view Reddit without an account.
I have left, I just view Reddit…
So you haven’t left Reddit. Like saying you left Google but still Google search without logging in.
- Do you think developers have any say in this?
- They have Reddit Premium for free, and most likely an internal version too.
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib There’s some redirect browser addons like LibRedirect that can automatically redirect you to redlib instances.
From the readme in the link there’s a redlib instance uptime list. Can use one with 99% uptime if you’re having trouble finding a good one!
The addon I mentioned can ping instances and you can then add or remove them accordingly.
Highly recommend this. It takes some time setting a default instance that isn’t down or broken for some sites but worth it.
Some sites seem to just be broken and the only option from what I can tell but it certainly worked well for Reddit. Just had to filter out the specific instances that don’t allow for NSFW posts at all.
Or just request the desktop version.
